Hi Joe, Was your permission denied problem solved? How? I'd like to add an entry into the NFS FAQ page about this. Thanks Joe Landman wrote: > Hi Folks > > We have a 3.1 cluster set up, and NFS mounting is operational. We are > trying to get our heads around the mounting of this cluster. What we > found works (for a 6 brick distributed cluster) is using the same > server:/export in all the mounts. > > My questions are > > 1) can we use any of the bricks for server? We tried using another > brick in the volume, but it doesn't seem to work. > > 2) if we need to use a single server for the mount, is this a > performance bottleneck? That is, does all the traffic have to traverse > one brick? > > 3) in previous releases (3.0.x and before) we could mount the file > system on each server. We are doing this now with the nfs mount, but my > concern from point 1 still stands. > > We are working on understanding the performance issues with this. > Hopefully with some benchmarks soon. > > Regards, > > Joe >